News 2018 July 4

Port of Tallinn subsidiary signs agreement for chartering m/v Botnica during summer periods

WMU celebrates 35 years

Damen Shiprepair Curaçao welcomes royal visit

Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles start push for zero - emissions from trucks

Computer-based training for Alfa Laval PureBallast 3 will help secure crew competence and ballast water treatment compliance

Analytical report on development of civil shipbuilding in Russia prepared by RF Ministry of Industry and Trade together with Media Group PortNews

Aker Solutions secures Perenco contract extension in Southern North Sea

Ulstein Verft to construct large cable laying vessel for Nexans

ReCAAP and WMU srengthen cooperation in fight against piracy and sea robbery

Tilbury welcomes the VESPER floating bulk terminal to its new base at London Container Terminal

Port of Oakland adopts $494.2 million budget for FY 2019

Throughput of Rostov-on-Don port in 6M’18 up 19% Y-o-Y to 10.57 million tonnes

Wagenborg orders a second Barge Master 3D motion compensated crane

STLC investments in Russia’s transport industry exceed half a trillion of rubles

Mediterranean SOx emission control area study begins

Second phase of Bangladesh ship recycling project begins

BMT launches new hybrid ‘Eco Ferry’ design

ABS сlasses world’s first next generation LNG carrier

RF Navy's small missile ship Uragan completes her third sortie to Ladoga Lake within plant sea trials

Throughput of Port Vysotsky up 4.1% to 3.65 million tonnes in 6M’18

Artem Sidorov relieved of his position as head of Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources (Rosprirodnadzor)

Brent Crude futures price up 0.49% to $78.14, Light Sweet Crude – up 0.65% to $74.62

Bunker prices are growing at the Port of Saint-Petersburg, Russia (graph)

Baltic Dry Index up to 1,476 points